John D'Agata

John D'Agata holds degrees from both the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program; he's now a member of the Nonfiction Writing Program faculty. John D'Agata is the author of About a Mountain and Halls of Fame, and editor of The Next American Essay and The Lost Origins of the Essay. He was a finalist for the 2003 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction, and a recipient of a 2008 creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.